Sen. Whitehouse: GAO Finds Changes in Social Cost of Carbon Dramatically Lower Estimates of Climate Costs
July 15, 2020
July 15, 2020
WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release:
President Trump's changes to the federal government's core measure of the costs of climate change, the social cost of carbon, mean "current federal estimates [of climate effects] are about 7 times lower than the prior federal estimates," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds in a report released by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and six Senate colleagues. Despit . . .
President Trump's changes to the federal government's core measure of the costs of climate change, the social cost of carbon, mean "current federal estimates [of climate effects] are about 7 times lower than the prior federal estimates," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds in a report released by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and six Senate colleagues. Despit . . .